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2022-05-06 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
3 killed, 3 badly injured in terrorist ax attack in Elad at end of Independence Day
[IsraelTimes] Eyewitnesses tell police two men, believed to be Paleostinians, attacked passersby with ax and knife at park in central city; manhunt underway; Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, praises attack.

Three people were killed and three others seriously hurt in a terror attack in the central Israeli city of Elad on Thursday night, medics said.

The attack came at the end of Israel’s Independence Day, and followed a wave of terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank in recent weeks, and repeated threats by Paleostinian terror groups over the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

According to eyewitnesses, two bully boyz attacked several people with an ax and a knife at a central park and a nearby road in the largely ultra-Orthodox city. At least one of the maimed was at death's door, and up to seven were hurt in the attack.

The Magen David Adom ambulance service reported the three fatalities. The victims were not immediately identified.

MDA paramedics also reported another person was lightly maimed "during a fight with the terrorists."

Police confirmed that the incident was a terror attack. It took place minutes after Independence Day events had concluded, in the park crowded with Israelis celebrating the holiday.

Police initially said witnesses told them one of the attackers used a firearm and the other had an ax or a large knife. But MDA said the injuries did not appear to be from gunfire, but from a "sharp implement."

"A 40-year-old man was lying next to a car on Ibn Gabirol Street with many stab wounds to his body; at this stage we realized he was dead," MDA medic Alon Rizkan said.

"I continued down the stairs toward the park, and found two more unconscious victims lying several meters from each other. Both of them were declared dead," Rizkan added.

"In the park we saw a 75-year-old man lying on the ground, semiconscious, with severe injuries to his upper body. He could not speak and responded with gestures," MDA medic Idit levy said.

"It was a very difficult sight, people were sprawled on the road and on the sidewalk from the square to the park, and cries for help were heard from every corner," Zaka volunteer Aaron Zilberman said.

"We were in the synagogue when the gabai (warden) shouted, ’Terrorist, terrorist,'" an eyewitness named Mordechai Chachmon told news hounds at the scene.

"We went outside and we saw [one of the terrorists] running along a path... and hitting anyone in front of him with an ax to the head. Both of [the terrorists] were shouting Allahu Akbar [God is greatest]."

Chachmon said a security guard fired at the terrorists, but missed.

Police launched a manhunt for the two suspects and blocked off several roads in the area. In a statement, a police spokesperson said a helicopter was being used to search for a vehicle that had expeditiously departed at a goodly pace.

The bully boyz were not immediately identified, but police officials said their "working hypothesis" was that they were Paleostinians from the West Bank. Elad, a town of some 50,000 residents, is located a short distance to the west of the West Bank security barrier, which has been frequently breached by bully boyz carrying out attacks.

Local authorities ordered residents of Elad to remain in their homes amid fears the pair may attack again.

In the wake of the attack, Israeli security officials extended until Sunday the closure of the West Bank and Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
— which was put in place on Tuesday afternoon, ahead of Memorial Day and Independence Day, and had been supposed to end overnight Thursday-Friday.

Paleostinian terror groups praised the attack, although none immediately took responsibility.
The IDF has reinforced troops in the West Bank by 12 battalions for a total of 25 battalions in order to bring the current wave of violence to an end without further attacks. Last week the IDF announced the decision to recruit six reserve battalions in the coming weeks after a situational assessment.

The huge boost in troops allows the military to carry out offensive operations in the West Bank and deploy troops along the security fence in order to prevent Paleostinians from crossing into Israel through holes in the fence.

With at least two of the attacks carried out by Paleostinians who illegally crossed into Israel through holes in the fence, the IDF has already begun to dig trenches to prevent vehicles from crossing as well as additional defenses along the barrier.

A third attack, at the entrance to the West Bank city of Ariel last week, was carried out by two Paleostinians who were driving a stolen Israeli car.

The increase in troop deployment to the West Bank is expected to last until the end of the year in order to allow soldiers to carry out offensive operations to arrest suspects believed to be involved in terror.
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